Pirate Moon

Houses are ships, says Pirate Polly
You latch up your portholes before you go to sleep
But what is a crime and who is a criminal
Who takes your life, you give it so willingly
I will not eat your swollen animals
I am a thief but I am not a murderer

Pirate Polly never killed an Indian
Polly never spilled the blood of an Indian
She won't take your money with wind in her pocket
She enters your body before you can lock it
She touches your pillow and enters your room
Like a pirate moon

Standing on the balcony, the moon is beside her
She looks in your window and you do not see her
The way that you look at your face in the mirror
Is all that she needs to uncover your treasure
And on her head shines the pirate moon
Pirate moon, the pirate moon

Back to the docks where the others are waiting
To sail from the harbor on a ship called the Wildflower, Wildflower
Back on the Wildflower rules can be broken
Mutiny is possible, doors are left open
Each pirate owns their own skull and bones
Living their days unrehearsed like the haze
Around the moon, the pirate moon
Pirate moon, the pirate moon

Houses are ships, says Pirate Polly
You're not a fish 'though you swim on the concrete
Just like Jesus, she's a thief in the night
She steals your illusions, dissolves in the light
Of the pirate moon, the pirate moon
Pirate moon, the pirate moon
Like a pirate, like a pirate moon
Like a pirate, like a pirate moon